Don't Answer

Sarah Keating has spent years listening to people say impossible things in the moments before shock takes them—but nothing prepares her for the night three patients walk out of her emergency department following voices only they can hear. Their bodies are found kneeling in open fields, throats torn from screaming, jaws forced beyond their limits. As the phenomenon spreads across Ohio, one rule emerges: hearing the voice doesn't kill you—answering it does. When Sarah's husband vanishes after responding to his dead mother's call, she must lead her young daughter and her deaf brother on a desperate journey through a silenced America, where every whispered word could be the last.